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riversedge

(70,475 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 11:10 AM Jun 2015

Paul Ryan can’t even convince Fox News that Republicans have a viable Obamacare alternative


I dread what will happen if the SC disses the aca!

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Monday, Jun 15, 2015 06:58 AM CST
Paul Ryan can’t even convince Fox News that Republicans have a viable Obamacare alternative

GOP will absolutely, positively, offer an insurance alternative should the Supreme Court shoot down Obamacare VIDEO
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On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace demanded details from Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan about the Republicans’ secret plan for replacing Obamacare should the Supreme Court invalidate it, but the former vice presidential candidate refused to offer any.

Ryan said that should the Supreme Court deem the federal subsidies unconstitutional and leave six million people uninsured, the GOP has “a solution that addresses this law. We’ll have a solution for the people caught in this law, so that they’re not caught in the lurch.”

His offer of providing people both insurance and “freedom from Obamacare” was extraordinarily vague, though, so much so that Wallace became visibly annoyed. “For all the complaints,” he said, “we’re five years into Obamacare and Republicans have still not come up with a coherent plan that will ensure that all of those millions of people will get coverage.”

Ryan repeatedly refused to offer specific details about what the Republican’s “freedom from Obamacare” insurance plan would entail, offering instead political platitudes. “We will have an answer,” he said, sounding less like a politician and more like a kid at summer camp trying to convince his bunkmates of the existence of his Canadian girlfriend. “We will have a solution.” .......
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Paul Ryan can’t even convince Fox News that Republicans have a viable Obamacare alternative (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2015 OP
that is pathetic... CTyankee Jun 2015 #1
I know what it is! CTyankee Jun 2015 #2
of all the repukian turd maggot simpletons olddots Jun 2015 #3
Ryan is dangerous to the common good of the USA riversedge Jun 2015 #5
Since the ACA is the same plan The Heritage Foundation had on their website for Cleita Jun 2015 #4

CTyankee

(63,927 posts)
2. I know what it is!
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 11:15 AM
Jun 2015

Health Savings Accounts!

Some repuke on Morning Joe last week offered that up helpfully...THAT'S IT!

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
3. of all the repukian turd maggot simpletons
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 11:15 AM
Jun 2015

This little jock weasle is potentually the most dangerous wanna be dictator .

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
4. Since the ACA is the same plan The Heritage Foundation had on their website for
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 11:18 AM
Jun 2015

years, where do the Republicans go from there? They are boxed into a metaphorical box canyon. They can't move forward so they have to go back out and they can't say that out loud.

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